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- 0:00Speaker 1: A Cast recommends Hello, This is Louise MacSharry from catch
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- 0:07Speaker 1: you up on what's going on no matter how busy
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- 0:15Speaker 1: we'll chat about what's been going on in the world
- 0:17Speaker 1: of celebrity and entertainment. And on Fridays I'll introduce you
- 0:21Speaker 1: to someone who's been up to something really interesting, whether
- 0:23Speaker 1: it's an author, a comedian, or just someone who really
- 0:26Speaker 1: knows a lot about something we've been wondering about. Come
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- 0:33Speaker 2: A Cast is home to the world's best podcasts, including
- 0:36Speaker 2: Confession Box, Get the Gist, and the one you're listening
- 0:40Speaker 2: to right now.
- 0:46Speaker 3: Pride Daily.
- 0:48Speaker 4: Hi there, I'm keV McGraw coming up. An anti quaerd
- 0:52Speaker 4: Demo is a dud first of a transgender student suing
- 0:58Speaker 4: the former high school in the USA, claiming it didn't
- 1:01Speaker 4: bother to protect her from a planned violent attack. It's
- 1:05Speaker 4: alleged that in twenty twenty two, despite staff being repeatedly
- 1:10Speaker 4: informed about the ongoing bullying of Tatiana Blunt, which included
- 1:14Speaker 4: sexual assault, Taylor High in Virginia failed to act. Then
- 1:19Speaker 4: screenshots outlining plans on socials for another attack were disregarded.
- 1:24Speaker 4: The legal submission says she suffered brain injuries causing permanent
- 1:28Speaker 4: cognitive damage. Stacy Walls is from advocacy organization the lgbt
- 1:34Speaker 4: Life Center.
- 1:35Speaker 5: Over the years, trans people have been treated poorly in school,
- 1:39Speaker 5: and part of it is there just wasn't policy. I
- 1:41Speaker 5: want people to know that kids will be watching to
- 1:44Speaker 5: see if adults are going to be held accountable for
- 1:48Speaker 5: how they treat kids just like them.
- 1:50Speaker 4: Thanks to thirteen News Now, Tatiana says she was attacked
- 1:54Speaker 4: by a number of students and lost consciousness multiple times.
- 1:58Speaker 4: The lawsuit also claimed no ambulance was called by the
- 2:02Speaker 4: school Pride Daily Next, Ukraine's president Zelenski's been speaking up
- 2:08Speaker 4: for LGBTQ plus equality. We've all got the same rights,
- 2:12Speaker 4: he recons regardless of any prejudices held by people from
- 2:16Speaker 4: the fifteenth century. Didn't realize they lived so long there,
- 2:20Speaker 4: So Ukraine's a modern country and talking about LGBTQ plus
- 2:24Speaker 4: stuff should be totally normal. No same sex marriage there yet, though,
- 2:28Speaker 4: and it's feared a planned civil code update could undermine
- 2:32Speaker 4: queer rights.
- 2:33Speaker 3: Pride Daily.
- 2:36Speaker 4: And a whole nine people have showed up for a
- 2:39Speaker 4: protest against Pride events Imprest in the West of France. Too.
- 2:44Speaker 4: Far right groups called Reconquest and vigilant Parents weren't happy
- 2:48Speaker 4: about a diversity workshop and a drag Queen story hour
- 2:52Speaker 4: for children. Two hundred allies turned out for a counter protest,
- 2:56Speaker 4: leading to complaints from the faint hearted fascists because they reckon.
- 3:00Speaker 4: People were calling them homophobic. Oh didums how libelous? Pride
- 3:07Speaker 4: Daily either, I'm keV McGrath on the way. Ariana Grande
- 3:12Speaker 4: steps up for queer rights. First that the eighty one
- 3:16Speaker 4: year old nun who's helping Catholic parents in America to
- 3:20Speaker 4: support their transgender children. Sister Nancy Corcoran from the Sisters
- 3:25Speaker 4: of Saint Joseph of Corondola in Missouri, has weekly dinners
- 3:29Speaker 4: where moms and dads get together. It's all about how
- 3:32Speaker 4: to affirm their kids so they can live their best lives.
- 3:35Speaker 6: They come to supper at the mother House and they
- 3:38Speaker 6: sit around and they help one another. They share their story.
- 3:43Speaker 4: Sister Nancy was clueless about all things transgender till she
- 3:46Speaker 4: decided to educate herself a decade ago spent two years
- 3:50Speaker 4: traveling the US going to transconferences. Now she speaks up
- 3:55Speaker 4: on the failure of the Catholic Church to recognize gender
- 3:58Speaker 4: transition parents.
- 4:00Speaker 6: You know, as a Roman Catholic nun, I say the
- 4:03Speaker 6: church is wrong. And I also let my bishop know
- 4:06Speaker 6: everything I'm doing.
- 4:07Speaker 4: Thanks to the Kelly Kittley podcast. Sister Nanci's archdiocese doesn't
- 4:13Speaker 4: officially endorse what she's doing, but it doesn't stand in
- 4:15Speaker 4: the way either. Missouri's estate that's passed lots of anti
- 4:19Speaker 4: trans laws in the last few years, including attacks on
- 4:22Speaker 4: healthcare and bathroom use.
- 4:24Speaker 3: Pride Daily next.
- 4:27Speaker 4: Ariana Grande has launched the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation to
- 4:30Speaker 4: support gay and transgender rights and also fundamental health services
- 4:36Speaker 4: for queer people and emergency support. The singer says the
- 4:40Speaker 4: foundation's working with a number of LGBTQ plus organizations providing
- 4:45Speaker 4: the safe space and care that's desperately needed by so
- 4:48Speaker 4: many right now. Pride Daily and Italian national football team
- 4:53Speaker 4: players Elisa Bartoli and Lucia di Guiliemo have tied the
- 4:58Speaker 4: knot that there's civil union ceremonies taking place in the
- 5:01Speaker 4: Tuscan countryside. Both wore white dresses with current and former
- 5:06Speaker 4: teammates looking on. You can see pictures in our socials
- 5:09Speaker 4: at Pride Daily Pod Queer Family Podcast.
- 5:15Speaker 7: If you've ever felt like your family didn't fit the
- 5:17Speaker 7: traditional mold, this show is for you. I'm Jamie, host
- 5:22Speaker 7: of The Queer Family Podcast, and every week we highlight
- 5:26Speaker 7: LGBTQIA plus families and the beautiful, unique ways we build
- 5:31Speaker 7: and show up for our families in a world that
- 5:34Speaker 7: wasn't designed for us. We celebrate, highlight, uplift, and normalize
- 5:39Speaker 7: queer families because our stories deserve center stage. New episodes
- 5:44Speaker 7: every Monday. Listen wherever you get your.
- 5:46Speaker 3: Pots, lo The Queer Family Podcast, Lovers Love, Pride Daily.
- 5:54Speaker 4: Hi there, I'm keV McGrath coming up the latest country
- 5:57Speaker 4: to ban conversion therapy. There's that New Zealand's plans for
- 6:03Speaker 4: an anti transgender law are coming up against the public
- 6:06Speaker 4: and god. Ten thousand people have marched across five cities
- 6:11Speaker 4: there opposing the snappily titled Definitions of Woman and Man
- 6:15Speaker 4: Amendment Bill, which basically wants to raise trans identity, and
- 6:20Speaker 4: a church in Auckland has put up a billboard saying
- 6:23Speaker 4: we don't care what's in your pants, and neither should
- 6:26Speaker 4: the government.
- 6:27Speaker 8: My heartfelt theological response to such time wasting politics is
- 6:33Speaker 8: simply to ask, where is.
- 6:37Speaker 9: The love in this?
- 6:39Speaker 4: Reverend Richard bonifants from Saint Matthew and the City Church, where.
- 6:44Speaker 8: Is God's radically inclusive love, calling us towards because I
- 6:52Speaker 8: cannot accept for a second that the love which knows
- 6:55Speaker 8: no boundaries is any patients for this bill.
- 7:01Speaker 4: The plans have come from a radical right wing political party,
- 7:05Speaker 4: Go Figure, and only past the first stage of parliamentary
- 7:09Speaker 4: approval with a small majority New Zealand's governments accepting the
- 7:13Speaker 4: public's views on this till July. Second, Pride Daily Next
- 7:18Speaker 4: conversion therapy is being banned in the Netherlands Parliament's upper house,
- 7:23Speaker 4: the Senate, has approved legislation prohibiting attempts to change a
- 7:27Speaker 4: person's sexuality or gender identity through therapy. It was already
- 7:32Speaker 4: against the law to try this with medication or shock therapy.
- 7:36Speaker 4: Breaking the ban threatens up to two years in prison
- 7:39Speaker 4: and massive fines.
- 7:41Speaker 3: Pride Daily and this year's.
- 7:43Speaker 4: Melbourne Excellence in Drag and Entertainment awards have been dished out.
- 7:47Speaker 4: The prize for best Burlesque Performer went to Bendy Ben,
- 7:52Speaker 4: while top Burlesque Business was bottoms Up elsewhere. Whig Stylist
- 7:57Speaker 4: of the Year was Plug's Bunny. No time to tell
- 8:01Speaker 4: you that catching the bus is now free for transgender people.
- 8:05Speaker 4: In India's Caeral Estate, women also get to write for
- 8:08Speaker 4: nothing on government run vehicles, which is what was promised
- 8:11Speaker 4: in the elections There Pride Daily, Hi there, I'm keV
- 8:16Speaker 4: McGrath coming up why Indonesians are incandescent? First, though, LGBTQ
- 8:24Speaker 4: plus ally Julia Roberts has been paying tribute to Rene Good,
- 8:28Speaker 4: the queer mum of three killed by an immigration officer
- 8:32Speaker 4: in America. The actress took to the stage at a
- 8:35Speaker 4: free speech concert in New York. Thirty seven year old
- 8:38Speaker 4: Rene was shot in Minneapolis in January. Due to the
- 8:41Speaker 4: culture war policies of the Orange convicted felon and sexual
- 8:45Speaker 4: abuser who's currently president.
- 8:47Speaker 10: Renane Nicole Good is not as symbol. She is an
- 8:51Speaker 10: American woman, a queer woman who is doing the very
- 8:56Speaker 10: best she could do to be good and an un
- 9:00Speaker 10: just world and I am honored to celebrate her life
- 9:04Speaker 10: and her legacy tonight because the life she gave is
- 9:08Speaker 10: our responsibility to carry.
- 9:12Speaker 4: Julia also read a poem about Renee written by America's
- 9:16Speaker 4: first National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman. Other allies speaking
- 9:21Speaker 4: at the event included Bette Midler and Jane Fonda. Pride
- 9:25Speaker 4: Daily Next, a petition calling for same sex marriage to
- 9:29Speaker 4: be legalized in Japan, has got thirty six thousand signatures.
- 9:34Speaker 4: It has been submitted to the Supreme Courts, which is
- 9:36Speaker 4: currently considering whether or not the country's ban goes against
- 9:41Speaker 4: the constitution. Separately, Japan's to roll out an LGBTQ plus
- 9:46Speaker 4: education program in schools, universities, and workplaces for better understanding
- 9:51Speaker 4: of sexual and gender diversity.
- 9:54Speaker 3: Pride Daily and.
- 9:56Speaker 4: A video of a gay party in Indonesia's led to
- 9:59Speaker 4: hundreds of people protesting on the streets. They're just jealous
- 10:03Speaker 4: because they didn't get an invite. Claims of obscene ax
- 10:07Speaker 4: are being investigated at a nightclub in Carawang, including same
- 10:11Speaker 4: sex kissing and hugging. The leader of the demonstration calling
- 10:16Speaker 4: for vigilance so no further morality is destroyed. Three people
- 10:21Speaker 4: arrested are looking it up to nine years in prison.
- 10:26Speaker 4: No time to tell you that there's an LGBTQ plus
- 10:29Speaker 4: first at the World Cup. Later, assistant referee Brook Mayo
- 10:33Speaker 4: becomes the first out gay official in a men's tournament
- 10:37Speaker 4: as the Czech Republic take on South Africa in Atlanta.
- 10:43Speaker 1: A Cast recommends Hello, This is Louise MacSharry from catch
- 10:48Speaker 1: Up with Louise MacSharry, the podcast which aims to catch
- 10:50Speaker 1: you up on what's going on no matter how busy
- 10:53Speaker 1: you are. On Mondays, our news episode will fill you
- 10:55Speaker 1: in on curt affairs in Ireland and beyond. On Wednesdays,
- 10:58Speaker 1: we'll chat about what's been going on in the world
- 11:00Speaker 1: of celebrity and entertainment, and on Fridays, I'll introduce you
- 11:04Speaker 1: to someone who's been up to something really interesting, whether
- 11:07Speaker 1: it's an author, a comedian, or just someone who really
- 11:09Speaker 1: knows a lot about something we've been wondering about. Come
- 11:12Speaker 1: for the catch up, stay for the crack. Subscribe to
- 11:14Speaker 1: catch up with Louise mac sharry now.
- 11:16Speaker 2: A Cast is home to the world's best podcasts, including
- 11:19Speaker 2: Confession Box, Get the Gist, and The One You're listening
- 11:23Speaker 2: to right Now.
- 11:29Speaker 3: Pride Daily.
- 11:31Speaker 4: Hi there, I'm keV McGrath, coming up a punk transgender superhero.
- 11:37Speaker 4: First though, a Muslim teenager comes out as gay to
- 11:41Speaker 4: his mother and it doesn't go well.
- 11:43Speaker 9: Really Yeah, why are you pulling that face?
- 11:47Speaker 7: Oh my god?
- 11:48Speaker 1: What?
- 11:50Speaker 7: I am very upset about it.
- 11:52Speaker 2: Hi, now you've made.
- 11:55Speaker 7: I can't accept this. You have to. I can't.
- 12:01Speaker 9: Why it's not right.
- 12:03Speaker 4: Jeffer Carouster from Cambridge in the UK, telling her he'd
- 12:07Speaker 4: known his sexuality since he was five years old, but
- 12:10Speaker 4: his mum says she doesn't want to see him with
- 12:12Speaker 4: another boy.
- 12:13Speaker 7: I don't want you to date.
- 12:14Speaker 9: I wouldn't then, but like that means I'm just going
- 12:17Speaker 9: to be single. But that's okay, because I'm just going
- 12:19Speaker 9: to spend the rest of my life like on my
- 12:21Speaker 9: own because I didn't want to get in a relationship
- 12:23Speaker 9: with other pupil anyway. Don't don't yet.
- 12:29Speaker 4: Jeffer also explains to her he makes videos wearing wigs
- 12:33Speaker 4: and makeup as a way of expressing his feminine side.
- 12:36Speaker 7: Don't do that.
- 12:37Speaker 6: I mean, if you don't do it, maybe you forgot.
- 12:42Speaker 9: It's not how it works. You don't just forget about
- 12:44Speaker 9: your sexuality like you are the way you are. If
- 12:46Speaker 9: you could choose to only be attracted to women, could you? No,
- 12:49Speaker 9: you can't.
- 12:50Speaker 4: Depressing as this is, He's been absolutely delased with love
- 12:54Speaker 4: since the video went viral. Comments include we accept you,
- 12:58Speaker 4: I just want to hug him, and you deserve sunshine.
- 13:02Speaker 3: Pride Daily.
- 13:04Speaker 4: Next, an intersex schoolteacher in Florida says he's been fired
- 13:08Speaker 4: because bosses saw him as transgender. Shepherd Scarf was assigned
- 13:13Speaker 4: female at birth but identifies as male. He claims his
- 13:16Speaker 4: work at Patriot Oaks Academy had been described by the
- 13:19Speaker 4: head teacher as nothing less than exemplary. The language arts
- 13:23Speaker 4: teacher says he's got evidence. A parent complains that he's trans.
- 13:27Speaker 4: He's now suing, accusing the school of unlawfully sacking him.
- 13:31Speaker 3: Pride Daily and a bit of.
- 13:33Speaker 4: An LGBTQ plus a glow up for birth certificates. In
- 13:37Speaker 4: South Australia, individuals who aren't birth parents but are legal
- 13:42Speaker 4: parents can now be recorded as mother, father, or parent
- 13:46Speaker 4: rather than just other parent. But there's always a butt.
- 13:50Speaker 4: People who give birth still have to be down as mother,
- 13:54Speaker 4: even if they're a transgender man or non binary. No
- 13:58Speaker 4: time to tell you that a crowdfund has been launched
- 14:01Speaker 4: to get an animation about a punk transgender superhero off
- 14:05Speaker 4: the ground. Surreal comedy Sorry About the Mess sees Alice
- 14:09Speaker 4: Perrell trying to navigate a world ending supernatural threat. You've
- 14:15Speaker 4: got Rome Pride and London Dyke March tomorrow, plus on
- 14:19Speaker 4: Sunday in Ukraine it's Kiev Pride Equality March. There's more
- 14:24Speaker 4: on our socials at Pride Daily Pod, including any breaking
- 14:28Speaker 4: news that's you lot, I'll see you next week